The guys at Slice of Lime are looking to add a Boulder-based PHP Web Developer to their team. If you fit the bill and are looking for a great gig, send [Kevin Menzie](mailto:kevin@sliceoflime.com?subject=PHP Web Developer) a note.

I was going to edit my Getting A VC’s Attention post but I thought the point I was going to add was important enough to highlight it in a separate post. In the post I wrote: The feature is not the magic. Listening to your customers (in the case a prominent VC blogger – who’s attention is in high demand) and reacting to requests quickly and publicly is. What I meant to emphasize is that the magic is in “the doing.” It’s not about talking. It’s not about commenting. It’s not about emailing. It’s about doing. Rapidly iterating your product – demonstrating that you know how to process feedback, prioritize (based on whatever your current goals are), and executing. 

I regularly get asked “how do you get a VC’s attention?” Fred Wilson at Union Square Ventures just demonstrated – on his blog – how this works. Last week while Working On Vacation, Fred was screwing around with FriendFeed. He wrote a post titled Ten Things I’d Like FriendFeed To Do. Bret Taylor from FriendFeed immediately commented on the post “Thanks for the thoughtful comments. Wanted to let you know we all read them here at FriendFeed, and I agree with you on almost every single request.” A few days later FriendFeed implemented the ability to post an @reply to twitter from FriendFeed.

Finally. I can watch Kenny die over and over again. For free. On South Park Studios. I never again have to illegally download the Underpants Gnomes to teach people how to make a profit. I am so deeply pleased this morning.

Thanks to my friend Bruce Wyman – the Director of Technology at the Denver Art Museum – I bring you a picture of the Apollo 11 Landing Site overlayed on a baseball diamond. Click on the image for a larger version of it on the NASA site. Fiercely cool.

I’ve had a lot of fun over the past few years as an investor in NewWest.Net. I’ve learned a bunch from Jonathan Weber – the founder – about the intersection of Internet media and print media. NewWest.Net launched in 2005 as a local and regional online publication about growth and change in the Rocky Mountain West. The company then launched a conference series which has been quite successful. Recently they came out with their first print product, The New West Magazine.

Josh Kopelman doesn’t blog that frequently, but almost all of them are worth reading carefully. His latest post – Feed Frenzy – is great. Josh is facing the “multiple news feed problem” as he joins more and more services that publish a news feed. He takes on the notification side of the equation – the opposite of what FriendFeed and SocialThing do. All of the social network sites continue to use email as a notification mechanism. When something happens on the social network that pertains to you (including messages), you get an email. Anyone that has a meaningful volume of social network activity quickly learns how to turn these notifications off. This defeats part of the real time value of social networks – now I have to go check and see what’s going on to see if anything relevant to me has happened.

My partner Seth Levine just put up a post about our “Glue” theme on the Foundry Group blog. In our continuing series discussing some of our investment themes, we’d like to introduce a topic that we’re calling “glue”. Glue is our term for the web infrastructure layer that facilitates the connections between web services and content companies. As this ecosystem becomes increasingly complex and as web sites and web based applications rely on more underlying services, this “glue” layer of the Internet is becoming more and more core to overall web infrastructure.

Lisp is still my favorite programming language. 6.001 is still one of my favorite classes. Parentheses are my friend. Thanks Shawn.